Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Thinking about national identity
- 2 Accessing national identity
- 3 National identity: do people care about it?
- 4 Debatable lands: national identities on the border
- 5 Claiming national identity
- 6 The politics of national identity
- 7 The notional other: ethnicity and national identity
- 8 A manner of speaking: the end of being British?
- 9 Whither national identity?
- Appendix National identity publications
- Bibliography
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2015
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Thinking about national identity
- 2 Accessing national identity
- 3 National identity: do people care about it?
- 4 Debatable lands: national identities on the border
- 5 Claiming national identity
- 6 The politics of national identity
- 7 The notional other: ethnicity and national identity
- 8 A manner of speaking: the end of being British?
- 9 Whither national identity?
- Appendix National identity publications
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This book is the product of a thoroughly collegiate form of working in which the data, the analysis and successive drafts, as well as the many papers on which it is broadly based, have been discussed and amended by both authors throughout, and they are equally responsible for it. David McCrone took responsibility for writing the first draft. We are both deeply committed to collegiate research but it is inevitable that one can only do this for twenty years or so by also being firm friends. Given our differing personalities and intellectual interests and strengths, our colleagues may well regard our enduring intellectual partnership as something of a miracle but we have greatly enjoyed the experience and that is what has enabled us to produce this body of work. The usual stricture applies. We and we alone are responsible for the research we have done together and what we have written; the faults are ours alone.
We have a lot of people and organisations to thank. By far the major funder was The Leverhulme Trust without which most of the research would simply not have happened. Successive directors Barry Supple, Richard Brook and Gordon Marshall were always supportive and understanding, and above all, wonderfully non-bureaucratic. We commend the Trust as an ideal funding body with which to work. We are also indebted to the Economic and Social Research Council which funded the arts and landed elites study and helped with funding Scottish and British Social Attitudes Surveys at crucial moments. The National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) which carries out the British Social Attitudes Surveys, and the Scottish Centre for Social Research (ScotCen) which is responsible for the Scottish Social Attitudes Surveys, have been especially helpful and encouraging. We particularly wish to thank Simon Anderson, Rachel Ormston, John Curtice and Susan Reid at ScotCen for their robust and incisive help with the social surveys, and their willingness to let us try out innovative ideas even if they were initially sceptical.
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- Understanding National Identity , pp. ix - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015